Pith Number

pith:QQJKF7FH

pith:2026:QQJKF7FHIZQXBESQNNB3CAUUKQ

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The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching

Aaron Mueller, David Arbour, David Jensen, Sankaran Vaidyanathan, Scott Niekum

arxiv:2606.27510 v1 · 2026-06-25 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QQJKF7FHIZQXBESQNNB3CAUUKQ}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-29T00:14:08.605590Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8412a2fca746617092506b43b102945401dea074c7732dc8b58ac3d3121fa0fe

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.27510 · arxiv_version: 2606.27510v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.27510 · pith_short_12: QQJKF7FHIZQX · pith_short_16: QQJKF7FHIZQXBESQ · pith_short_8: QQJKF7FH

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QQJKF7FHIZQXBESQNNB3CAUUKQ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 8412a2fca746617092506b43b102945401dea074c7732dc8b58ac3d3121fa0fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f05dcfe2578a39202f19b5d43b27b908bd5e952623f2cb3980021fc6ed04b5a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-25T19:52:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "258342e26b69f9029c75a2b1e6005a373a5d7629bdffe7e5ad802a6ff69f1f6a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.27510",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}